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funeral

2

manners; customs; public morals; sex service; sex industry

9

magazine; journal

6

to write; to publish

1

Dutchman; Dutchwoman

2

Isaac

1

Titsingh

2

seventeen; 17

1

to write down; to record; to register

1

Dejima; artificial island in Nagasaki used as a Portuguese and Dutch trading post between 1634 and 1854

56

hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe

15

all night long; all through the night

1

open air

4

block (of wood); chip; splinter

1

approximately the same

3

interpreter (esp. of Dutch and Chinese during the Edo period); interpretation; court interpreter

1

sand; grit; fine gravel

12

coarse; rough

11

fine powder

3

rectangle; oblong

5

piece of paper; slip of paper; strip of paper; scrap of paper

33

flour; meal; powder; heroin

16

good; goodness; right; virtue

3

important point (e.g. on a route); important role (responsibility, etc.); opposition

1

knob; handle; snack (to have with a drink); side dish; a pinch (e.g. of salt); (file) handle

4

nostril; naris

7

three; three years of age

35

to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat

4

another; different; something else

1

trick; plot device; mystery-fiction trope

1

by itself; automatically; naturally

5

clock; watch; timepiece

18

to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise

6

soft; tender; gentle; mild; light (topic, book, etc.); informal

1

association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion

12

that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game

19

to meet; to assemble; to congregate

10

to get involved or entangled in; to get mixed up in; to have something to do with; to have dealings with

1

joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing

31

to push (something) against

3

scabbard; sheath; cap (on a brush, pen, etc.); case; margin (between two prices); spread

7

to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post); to be delivered

21

joyful (news, event, etc.); joyous; delightful (e.g. result); pleasing (e.g. sight); gratifying; welcome

1

electric shock; blitz; lightning attack; sudden and without warning; shocking

9

early morning

6

not sleeping a wink; wide awake all night; without moving

1

to run into; to rush into; to (run and) seek refuge in; to take shelter in

12

late at night

24

to wake (someone) up (roughly); to rouse out of bed; to awaken (someone) by knocking at the door

5

real nuisance; becoming inconvenienced by someone else's problems (through no fault of one's own)

1